"Good morning. I am the aircraft carrier Zeppelin"

With long, gray hair similar to that of Lexington, the girl with a cold expression asked Rilan, "Are you the commander of this operation?" ”

Li Lan was stunned when she heard this, and she couldn't figure out what this shipgirl meant, but she still replied honestly: "If nothing else, it should be me."

Whether it is POI or Spring Rain, they seem to be more accustomed to thinking and fighting in the way of reincarnation than commanding operations, although they are more familiar with their "subordinates" because they used to be ship girls, but when facing an unheard-of "opponent" like the Deep Sea Beasts, this familiarity is useless, so in the previous discussion, they also directly handed over the command of this operation to Lilan - at least he had "fought" with these Deep Sea Monsters twice.

Nodding, Zeppelin realized: "Is that so...... I see."

Got it? Understand what?

Although she was still puzzled, Lilan still chose to actively send a signal of goodwill to her: "Anyway, please give me a lot of advice in the next battle."

As he spoke, Lilan stretched out his right hand......

“…… Please advise."

"Smack"

―――――― Split ――――――

Twenty minutes later, the reconstituted fleet departed from the dock east of the Northern Town Guard, heading for a resource point 70 km away.

Flagship of the Field Fleet, inside the Akagi cabin.

"The cruising speed is 27 knots, and there are no abnormal units in the 200km sea area...... Lord Admiral? ”

"Uh, sorry, distracted," Siran smiled apologetically at Akagi and motioned for her to continue.

Akagi's eyes were a little worried: "The reconnaissance plane has been arranged in advance, but it will be affected to a certain extent because of the wind direction."

Li Lan said indifferently: "It's okay, anyway, it's just better than nothing." I don't think that these reconnaissance planes can detect units 500m in the sea."

"That...... Lord Admiral, are you worried about something? ”

"Worried?" Looking at Akagi in surprise, Lilan wondered, "Why do you say that?" ”

Akagi's face turned slightly red, avoiding Rilan's gaze: "Because Akagi sees that you have been distracted......"

Li Lan suddenly smiled and said: "It's not that serious, there have been many big scenes before." A Behemoth of the Deep...... It's unknown if it even happens."

As he spoke, Li Lan paused: "Akagi, have you ever seen the LV100 ship mother?" ”

"Huh? Commander, you mean ......"

Lilan nodded slowly: "Yes, it's Zeppelin......" I don't know why, after talking to her, Lilan always felt as if he had inadvertently ignored something, and now that Akagi brought it up, Lilan didn't mind asking her to help think about it.

How to say it, the relationship between himself and Akagi has been determined, and there are some things that don't need to be held in my heart all the time like before......

Organizing the language, Li Lan's brows furrowed slightly: "I always feel ...... Isn't the timing of her appearance too ingenious? ”

It's different from other towns in the usual sense. The Northern Guardian Mansion is a completely different way of forming the Guardian Mansion.

Centered on the former ship girl, the reincarnation poi and the spring rain, the "wandering" ship mother who actively or passively left the original town guard house for various reasons, plus a part of the ship mother who was "plundered" from the original federation, this "big family" is formed together.

And the most normal way of birth of the ship's mother is to build, but there is no possibility of realizing it in this town guard mansion - as a ship's mother, they can't build independently at all.

Then, Zeppelin must also be a member of the "wandering" ship.

However. The time and place of her appearance is too coincidental, right?

The aircraft carrier-class ships in the Northern Town Guard Mansion happened to be on the side of the Southern Town Guard Mansion, and they appeared in the Northern Town Guard Mansion when they were extremely lacking in air detection power. And as soon as it appears, it is the full level status of LV100......

Coupled with the attitude and tone of the conversation with him before, Li Lan believes that there must be something in it that he hasn't figured out yet, can't say, maybe the deep-sea giant beast that was led away twice in Poi and Chunyu's mouth before has traces of her?

Groaning, Akagi's hesitant answer caught Rilan's attention: "Although I've heard of it, it's the first time Akagi has actually seen LV100's sisters."

Said here. Akagi was a little embarrassed: "Obviously I have received so much help from Lord Admiral, but Akagi is still LV71......"

The girl secretly made up her mind in her heart - in the future, she must work harder!

However, Lelan heard an anomaly in the midst of this: "Wait-"

Raising his head, Li Lan looked at Akagi fixedly: "Akagi." How old are you? ”

“……”

“……”

Li Lan, who reacted, hurriedly waved his hand and explained: "I didn't mean that, I just wanted to know...... Know ......"

For a moment, Lilan didn't know how to describe it.

Akagi didn't have any intention of delving into it, but just whispered a number: "...... 74……”

74…… How can I say it, a typical old demon-

Seeing Akagi's terrifying smile, Rilan immediately forcibly reversed his divergent thinking to his original train of thought - after all, he himself is not qualified to talk about others, if he really wants to talk about age, even if the entire town guard mansion is added up, I am afraid that he is not as tall as him.

It's just that one problem comes to the fore in this way.

Even if it is built at the age of 74, it is only LV71 now, and it is only in the last year or so that it can be increased to LV71, and if the battle intensity of the original Sixth Town Guard is followed, it is estimated that Akagi is now LV60. But even Akagi, who only had LV51 at the beginning, was regarded as the "guardian saint" of the sixth town guard, not to mention a higher level.

On the other hand, Zeppelin......

"Shhh...... LV100's regular air carrier ......" Li Lan finally understood what he had ignored before: "Who can have such a big deal to give up a regular air carrier-class ship mother who has been trained for dozens or even hundreds of years and finally cultivated to LV100?" ”

Moreover, she was able to wander alone on the sea for at least a year and a half after being "abandoned".

――A year and a half ago, according to the agreement reached between Rylan and the Federation in the Reach Star, all the forces that owned the ship were disbanded except for the Southern Town Guard and the Northern Town Guard, and the most recent experience that Zeppelin could trace back to was only a year and a half ago...... If her origin is true.

"Lord Admiral, an anomaly has been found at 2 o'clock!" (To be continued.) )